Miss Gill's 2017/2018 Nifty Nighthawks!!

Dear Families, Are we seriously in the last week of September!?  The beginning of the week sure felt summer like with record breaking hot temperatures and now it’s eased off and feeling more like the season - fall.  Mother Nature may be playing tricks on us ;) What ever the weather will be like, I hope you all enjoy your weekend! Character Recognition Assembly: At the end of every month, we as a school community celebrate a spirit day (today’s was Western Day) and the Character Trait of the month.  Thank you to all the students who showed school spirit and dressed up in their Western attire!  Yee-HAW!!! This month’s character trait is Caring – “We show kindness towards each other.”  I will take time on the blog to share and honour the recipients. I strongly believe an important part of our learning is to build and instill character in our children.  As a teacher, I do my best to model these traits consistently in my thoughts, words, and actions.  Today at our

Dear Families, Another fun-filled week for us!  I am very pleased with how students have transitioned from their holidays to school mode!  As you’ve probably gathered from my blog updates, we have been go, Go, GO with our learning in class!  Look at how much we’ve accomplished in a mere 3 weeks!  Looking forward to much more learning to be done in the coming weeks.  Stay tuned! Q.S.P. Fundraiser:    This week, we had an assembly to help promote our Q.S.P. fundraiser!  The funds from this will go directly to supporting field trip costs.  Extra forms are in the office if you require them.  Any amount of fundraising completed big or small can help!     Word Study Homework: Next week, your child will bring home a red duo-tang that contains “ Word Study ” worksheets for homework.  The expectation I have for this is for students to complete only 1 page each evening.   Sheet one to be completed on Mondays, sheet two Tuesdays, sheet 3 Wednesdays, and sheet 4 Thursdays.  At the

Dear Families, We have completed our second week of school already?!  Time flies when you’re having fun and the weather has been summer like!  The energy of our staff and students continues to be sunny and bright like the sunshine!  This beautiful climate is supposed to continue into this weekend so I hope you get lots of opportunity to spend time outside to hike, bike, and free play!  I know I will be J Thank you to those families who have taken the time to check out my last post.  I received positive feedback from parents and students.  I will continue to provide you all with updates and highlights each week.  My blog is now accessible through our Nottawa School Website:  http://not.scdsb.on.ca/ Click on > classes > Grade 3/4 Pareen Gill and it will direct you to my blog.  I hope this helps.  Happy reading! G.N.E. Field Trip: Next Friday, the Grade 3 and 7 students will be going to the G.N.E. for a field trip!  I am sure many of you have taken your f